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Donna Demaio: Australia Correspondent on the incoming Cyclone Alfred · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: We now crossed to Australia. Donna to my all the
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  Speaker 1: time by the way as fourteen to six. Hello Donna.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got a prominent ex football player who's joined
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  Speaker 1: a class action against the AFL, the National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: This alleged that he's alleging racial abuse.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well, we already knew that the AFL was facing
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  Speaker 2: legal action, but now we know that this prominent former
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  Speaker 2: player has joined the class action. Lawyers have confirmed that
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  Speaker 2: its former since killed a star and I'm calling him
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  Speaker 2: a true, true superstar of the footy world. NICKI Winmar.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's joined the action and this is very significant.
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  Speaker 2: The AFL is being sued by indigenous players, including Phil
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  Speaker 2: and James Cracker. Now it's alleged they suffered injury, loss
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  Speaker 2: and damage after the organization failed to protect them from
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  Speaker 2: racial abuse. Now Windmar's now fifty nine years old, but
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  Speaker 2: it was about three decades ago. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety three. In fact, he was at the center
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  Speaker 2: of an iconic moment and it's still discussed to this day.
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  Speaker 2: And he was on the field and he lifted his
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  Speaker 2: footage jumper and he pointed to his skin while he
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  Speaker 2: was being racially abused by opposition team fans. He was
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  Speaker 2: playing Collingwood at the time, so killed her versus Collingwood.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's an unspecified number of Indigenous players in the
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  Speaker 2: class action and now we know that Nicki Winmar has
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  Speaker 2: joined it. They've been given two months to build the case.
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  Speaker 2: And I will add that it was in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: three that Collingwood I'm going to say finally apologize to
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  Speaker 2: win La.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now you've got a tropical cyclone getting close close
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  Speaker 1: to Queensland and it's called Alfred.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, brace yourselves Queensland residents because it's due to landfall
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  Speaker 2: this week sometime on Thursday or Friday. Brisbane might even
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  Speaker 2: feel the brunt of this tropical cyclone. And of course
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  Speaker 2: there's the possibility of destructive wins and life threatening flash flooding.
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  Speaker 2: Now it could be upgraded to a category to any minute,
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  Speaker 2: and of course if it maintains that in density as
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  Speaker 2: it approaches the southeast Queensland coast, it could do quite
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  Speaker 2: a lot of damage. In fact, we've heard from the
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  Speaker 2: Bureaum Meteorology issuing a warning that there could be house damage,
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  Speaker 2: significant damage to trees and signs and caravans. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: there's the risk of power failure and the even fearing
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  Speaker 2: that there could be some damage to crops. Wings gus
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  Speaker 2: up to one hundred and sixty four kilometers per hour.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's been a fairly calm summer, you have to say, really,
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  Speaker 1: but here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Donnad Demayo, I thank you so very much for more
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